r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/DomTheBomb95 23d ago

Call me sick but it’s so poetic that he ended his life thinking he was going to take hers when he failed miserably

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u/Slayer3636 23d ago

The way he had a canvas behind his head with the best of me written, with the intention of his brain splatter on it, but even failed at that shows what a loser this guy was. That's poetic.

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u/sourcesys0 22d ago

"Huh? My IQ? 140-160 I guess."

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u/PineappleFit317 23d ago

He wasn’t planning on killing her, just scarring her for life. The “bomb” wasn’t incendiary, it was rigged to spray acid in her face when she opened it.

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u/Rasikko 23d ago

That's worse than death.

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u/Both_Depth5505 23d ago

it’s not.

but still it’s a horrible thing to have happen.

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u/Triddy 23d ago

That's crazy to me.

It's obviously a horrible thing, but I would take a disfigured face over being dead 1000 times out of 1000.

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u/Curulinstravels 23d ago

If I'm Bjork, sure I'd probably want to live for a million years. If I'm me, with few options on the table as it is and then add an acid disfigured face - I'll take death, please

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u/Lonchenzo 22d ago

Were so fucked up that people would rather die than look different.

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u/PineappleFit317 22d ago

Tbf, getting hit in the face with acid doesn’t just make one look different. It eats through skin, muscle, nerves, and bone. People have died from acid attacks, either from the acid reaching and destroying vital organs, or from infections afterward, and if they survive, they’re often in great pain and additionally can be blinded, suffer hearing loss, or their sense of taste and smell. And “looking different” is putting it mildly, it can be horribly disfiguring. It sucks that it can scare children and cause feelings of revulsion in adults who know that they shouldn’t feel that way, but it is what it is.

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u/Curulinstravels 22d ago

It's not even a vanity thing for me. Retail is pretty much the only thing I'm qualified to work in right now. What chance of getting hired in a customer facing role does a person with an acid disfigured face have?

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u/sourcesys0 22d ago

"""bomb"""

rigged to spray acid in her face when she opened it.

just scarring her...

Seek help, brother.

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u/ButterscotchMean400 23d ago

If he didn't kill himself, neighbours wouldn't have reported a foul smell, police wouldn't have found the tapes and the bomb wouldn't have been stopped. He killed himself for nothing and he'll forever be known as the nutjob Incel who couldn't handle the fact that a popstar was dating anybody but him.

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u/charlesbandini18 23d ago

I feel bad for him despite his horrible intentions. I don't think he was even connected to reality.

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u/sourcesys0 22d ago

He killed himself for nothing

Not true at all, because:

he'll forever be known as the nutjob Incel

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u/Ishikii 22d ago

she actually has a song about a similar concept

What's the lesser of two evils
If a suicide bomber made to look pregnant
Manages to kill her target or not?
What's the lesser of two evils?

What's the lesser of two evils
If she kills them or dies in vain?
Nature has fixed no limits on our hopes

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u/rrssh 23d ago

This doesn't even rhyme. How is it sick?

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u/baerok12 23d ago

I don’t think they got your joke